GM Naiditsch (2624) – GM Kramnik (2788) [C42]
01.07.2008 / Dortmund – Round 3
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.0–0 Be7 8.Re1 Bg4 9.c4 Nf6 10.Nc3 Bxf3 11.Qxf3 Nxd4 12.Qd1 Ne6 13.cxd5 Nxd5 14.Bb5+ c6 15.Nxd5 cxb5 16.Bf4 Nxf4 17.Rxe7+ Kf8 18.Re5 Qd6 19.Qd2 Ng6 20.Ree1 f6 21.Rad1 Kf7 22.Qe3 Rhe8 23.Ne7 Qxe7 24.Qb3+ Kf8 25.Rxe7 Rxe7 26.Qxb5 Rae8 27.g3 Ne5 28.Kg2 Nc6 29.b4 a6 30.Qb6 h6 31.a4 Ne5 32.Qc5 Kg8 33.b5 axb5 34.axb5 Nf7 35.h4 Kh8 36.Rd2 Kg8 37.Kh3 Kh8 38.f4 Kg8 39.h5 Kh8 40.Qf5 Nd8 41.Rd7 Ne6 42.Qd5 White wins 1–0
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Very nice tactical scramble.
Congrats to Naiditsch. Not many players succeed in winning against Kramnik like this…
…but I’m pretty sure Kramnik isn’t giving away his best opening surprises before the match w/ Anand
Shocking! Maybe Kramnik is not in his best shape after all? He hasn’t started this year good at all. I thought he didn’t do well at Corus because he was a little sick, but maybe it was no fluke after all?
I’m always happy when someone beats the Petroff. A very nice game by Naiditsch.
Smooth win!
Kramnik on 1.5/3, Ivanchuk on 1/3, who would have predicted that? Maybe things will go back to normal in the second half (just 7 games..)
Nice game, particularly as I am not really fond of the Petroff. Will be interesting to see what Kramnik has prepared for his encounter with Anand.
Kasparov mentioned 16. Bf4 in his book on the ’85 match against Karpov. Kasparov actually played 16. Qb3 and noted that after 16. Bf4 (given as a strong alternative by several commentators back then) Nxf4 17. Rxe7+ Kf8 18. Re5 Qd6 White only has a draw.
Kramnik is flushed!
Kramnik and Chucky sitting in a tree L-O-S-I-N-G.
First came love, then came marriage, then comes their genetic experiment in a baby carriage.
Resultnik!
Of course Kramnik wants to win, but you should remember that he now avoids all variations that he has planned to play in his coming WC match. He certainly will play other lines in Petroff then. Kramnik is a player who concentrates on titles, not rating and unimportant tourneys. Ask Kasparov.
Kramnik blundered that game away!
According to the new ‘Color Percentage’ feature at FIDE, Kramnik hasn’t won a single game with Black in the past 18 months.
Kramnik scored +15 -1 =13 in his 29 games with the White pieces and +0 -2 =26 in his 28 games with Black. Hard to believe a player of his calibre couldn’t win a single game with the Black pieces.
By comparison, Mr. Excitement, Morozevich, scored +27 -8 =15 in his 50 games with White and a rather impressive +21 -11 =20 in 52 games with Black.
Kramnik has Kracked !!! This guy is like 150 rating points below the Great Drawnik – it is obvious his career is over. Anand will finish busting Kramnik wide open. As Kasparov always said, Kramnik is not worth the paper he is written on. This was only a matter of time. Topolov now need only get past Kamsky and then Anand before claiming his rightful title to succeed Kasparov that was stolen by the KGB and Fritz in Elista.
@rgorn, yours is an interesting comment. – I think though, that it’s possible that Kasparov was right. After some computer analysis, I think that Black can “simply” capture the rook after 19.Qd2 and survive. But I am not sure yet, because my computer is not the fastest.
19…Qxe5 20.Qb4+ Ke8 21.Qxb5+ Kd8 22. Rd1
r2k3r/pp3ppp/8/1Q1Nq3/5n2/8/PP3PPP/3R2K1 b – – 0 22
Is it unclear now, is White winning (how exactly?), or is Black slightly better? At depths in the range 14…20, some of my analysis engines said, Black is slightly better.
Maybe it was the perfect shocker for an otb game, only.
“… This was only a matter of time. Topolov now need only get past Kamsky and then Anand before claiming his rightful title to succeed Kasparov that was stolen by the KGB and Fritz in Elista.”
Yep, and after that you can direct your attention to proving that we never landed on the moon, that a UFO actually crashed in Roswell, that the MIB do exist, etc. Any other conspiracy you want to address??
Danialov found the wires in Kramnik’s bathroom ceiling and has the matching Fritz statistics. What more proof do you need to see the wires themselves? Most experts are satisfied with verifiable photographic evidence, something that UFO-ologists don’t have.
Wires cannot give chess advice at 2800+ level. Or do you think Kramnik plugged these wires directly into himself, or whatever bathroom phantasies you may have… 🙂
You can get such “matching Fritz statistics” for Steinitz-Zukertort 1886, too. That does not mean that they were capable of time travel. :-))
Don’t you think Danialov thought all about this before bringing the charges? He proved Kramnik getting computer help with the aid of Fritz and the KGB. Danialov had enough evidence to convince Topalov, go public, and write a book. This has nothing to do with UFOs… but simple facts. All your protests shows how ill informed you all are. Do you think Topalov is a dummy?
Topalov is just a bad loser nothing else.
well theres usually cables in the sub-ceiling and most of the top-level matches do match fritz statistics. uhm… anything else?
GM Naiditsch played a great game. I love the final position. I’m surprised Kramnik allowed it to go so far.
Good for GM Naiditsch.
Yes, Topalov is a dummy. He is Danailov’s puppet that’s why he will never be world champion. He has one chance though: Send Danailov into the desert – decide your things for your own. Be a future champion who is in power about his own matters! Is Topalov capable of such a decisions? I think YES! Because HE is the strong MASTER, the chess player who can ASTONISH the world! Not Danailov, he is just a servant who maybe was useful for some time, but now he’s just a freak. Get rid of him, rise to your own level!
It is not Danailov who can make this decision, it is Topalov. I wish him good luck.
I do not like Topalov since he tried to cheat Kramnik out of his title in game 5 of Elista.
Kraminki looks like a homeless hobo in this picture. Perhaps some personal hygiene is in order to keep him well groomed and shave.
Poor Hobo-nik.
The future is Carlsen. & Hou Yifan. Forget Fischer, Kasparov, Kramnik & Topalov. That’s all the past. Nuff said.
Now back to the game – what happens if Black plays 19 …Ne6 instead of …Ng6 or the supposedly critical line of taking the rook (which seems to be the only line anybody has analysed).
Well, I do agree that Carlsen is the future. But the problem is that the way FIDE is running these cycles, Carlsen might not get a chance to the WCC in about 5 years. Which is way ridiculous!!!!
What are you babling about?
Carlsen can become the World champion by end of 2010 or early 2011. Thats less than 3 years from now.